Art vs Art Has Happened 5 Times Now

[Aluminum Elite Master]

This random encounter is hilarious to me at this point.

Basically, two identical NPCs named Art are firing at each other, with one having to be a synth. Now, I might have caused a glitch by accident by firing on *both* the first time I met them, so, I'm not sure this happens for everyone, but:

I've come across Art vs Art encounters at least 5 times. Again, not sure this happens for everyone, as I feel like if you kill the synth Art first without attacking the human one, well, you ought to get a reward of XP for a misc quest or something for having figured it out or guessed correctly. And that should be the end of it. So, me firing on and having to kill both the first time might have caused some glitch.

But it's just funny that it keeps happening every so often now. I mean, if *both* were synths, okay, then they are just being rebuilt... but one always has a synth component and the other doesn't, so one is human.

Seems like an unintentional thing that *this* random encounter repeats.

[j]

Maybe it's the same guy over, and over that is getting synth's sent after him. It would be funny if after a while he was like, "Bro, you know the deal it's me!" "Don't trust him, that's what the synth's -always- say!"

[Earl Sneakington]

Yeah same is happening to me too. I killed both people because they both keep trying to kill me for no reason. The weird thing is the human one keeps coming back. But to top it off, Deacon hates me when I try to defend myself. Because "I am attack possible synths".

[Semi Green]

is it usually the kneeling one? last 5 times the synth has been the kneeling one

[Picklejho]

One time, after I killed both Arts, I had to go defend one of my settlements. Two more Arts were attacking the settlement along with the gunners.

Art is new Gary?

[Strifeboy]

I just chatted and the synth told me he was one and we teamed up and killed the dirty human

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Field Marshal Sad Keanu:

This random encounter is hilarious to me at this point.

Basically, two identical NPCs named Art are firing at each other, with one having to be a synth. Now, I might have caused a glitch by accident by firing on *both* the first time I met them, so, I'm not sure this happens for everyone, but:

I've come across Art vs Art encounters at least 5 times. Again, not sure this happens for everyone, as I feel like if you kill the synth Art first without attacking the human one, well, you ought to get a reward of XP for a misc quest or something for having figured it out or guessed correctly. And that should be the end of it. So, me firing on and having to kill both the first time might have caused some glitch.

But it's just funny that it keeps happening every so often now. I mean, if *both* were synths, okay, then they are just being rebuilt... but one always has a synth component and the other doesn't, so one is human.

Seems like an unintentional thing that *this* random encounter repeats.

By this point maybe you should just kill them both - its obvious they're *both* synth by now.

[TheEvilNoob]

They were actually both synths. It's what synths do for fun. They both look like the same person and one pretends to be human and the other pretends to be a synth pretending to be a human and they see which one is more convincing.

On a more serious note, I saw them for the first time today and after "resolving" the fight they both attacked me, so I killed both.

[Nothing.]

This is actually a kind of annoying bug, because at some point, the synthetic one will start being hostile immediately if you killed him many times over, and if you're with certain companions, they'll disapprove of you intervening in their fight in any way regardless who you kill.

Does anybody know a possible fix that might exist to fix it? I have doubts it's a bug that will actually get an official fix. It was amusing the first few times seeing them duel repeatedly, but now it's just getting tiring hearing a pipe pistol and shotgun blast in the distance, and knowing exactly who is fighting.

[Marty Robbins]

Happening to me too. It was funny at first but it's getting pretty annoying now. I resolved it the first time by killing the synth, then the second time they were having a shootout and one was hostile to me so I killed him, then it happened a third time and I killed them both, and since then they keep appearing randomly. I played just now, encountered the two of them fighting near the dartmouth building, then again about five minutes later near goodneighbor.

[Andarvi]

1 word.

Kneecaper.

Hobble them both and walk away.

[Valkyrie]

They both start out hostile to me, so my companion always drops everything to join in and attack them both. So then I have to put them down, because my companions aim and damage is crap.

[Chop]

I have come across the "Art" fight 3 times now aswell. I just stand there and let them fight it out, as neither of them attack me, I try and guess which one will win :P

[Toph's Feethugs]

Ive seen the Art vs Art fight once, but synth Art has attacked me 4 different times now. Its very odd

[Mad Hatter]

I've come across the Art Twins 3 times so far. The first time they were fighting each other and both hostile to me in VATS, so I killed both. The second time, they weren't hostile according to VATS so I let them duke it out, the synth won and just walked away.

The third time I happened across them, they were standing a few feet away from each other facing opposite directions. I was able to talk to both of them but they didn't say anything other than some sort of generic greeting and that was it.

I just walked off and cleared a building/dungeon nearby. When I got out they were still standing there, backs to each other, doing nothing. I don't think it matters which is the synth and which is human, Art has problems.